Why would mothers want to kill their children?

9:54 PM,
Mar. 2, 2013

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The incidence of two sisters killing, or attempting to kill, their children before committing suicide is so uncommon that it would be difficult to study, a noted professor of psychiatry said.

"It's extremely rare - there's never been enough cases to do a study of that," said Dr. Phillip Resnick of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

It was unfathomable to many how any mother could stab her own child more than 30 times before killing herself, as happened Thursday in New City. The incident took a strange turn this weekend with word that in 1995 the woman's sister had shot her 5-year-old ...